Svend Bayer (UK)
Hans and Birgitte Borjeson (Denmark)
Nic Collins (UK)
Claire Curneen (Wales/Ireland)
Janet DeBoos (Australia)
John Gill (USA)
Ian Gregory (UK)
Wali Hawes (India/Japan)
Oliver Kent (UK)
Peter Lange (New Zealand)
Veronique Mamigbola & Angeline Hountchonou (Benin, Africa)
Ken Matsuzaki (Japan)
Carole McNicoll (UK)
Steve Mills (UK)
Laura O'Hagan (Ireland)
Gustavo Perez (Mexico)
Henry Pim (Ireland)

How to apply to be guest artist

Guest demonstrators are selected by the festival committee and can be proposed by anyone and we receive many recommendations from other artists and past festival guests. Artists themselves are also invited to submit information and visual imagery for consideration by the committee.

Guests are selected by many criteria

the quality of the work
the individuality of technique
their ability to communicate to a large audience
the overall balance of the festival programme

All proposals are looked at by the committee and a short list is drawn up. The initial selection takes place approximately 18 months before each festival.

The selection for the 2007 festival has now taken place.

If you would like to be considered for the 2009 Festival:

Please send information including your biography, CV, slides, photographs, cd's or videos etc to

Sophie Bennett

International Ceramics Festivall
c/o Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, SY23 3DE, Wales, UK.

Applications for the 2009 festival will be taken from September 2007.

"The International Potters Festival has become established as the premier UK event of its type, open to all, and attracting potters and enthusiasts, with guest demonstrators and lecturers from around the world. The opportunity during the weekend event to meet like-minded people from here and abroad is unparalleled".
- Paul Vincent, Editor, Studio Pottery'.